Hans Sachs

: This article refers to the poet. For other people of the same name, see Hans Sachs (disambiguation).

Biography

Hans Sachs was born in Nuremberg. His father was a tailor. He attended the Lateinschule in Nuremberg. When he was 14 he took up an apprenticeship as a shoemaker. After the apprenticeship, at age 17, he went on his "wanderjahre", that is, wandering about and working here and there, for five years. It is said that he decided to become a mastersinger in Innsbruck 1513. In the same year, he took up a kind of apprenticeship to become a mastersinger at Munich. Lienhard Nunnenbeck (a linen weaver) was his master. In 1516 he settled in Nuremberg and stayed for the rest of his life.

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Nuremberg - Lateinschule - Innsbruck - 1513 - Munich - 1516

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On September 1, 1519 he married Kunigunde Creutzer (*1512), who died in 1560. He married again September 2 1561, this time the young widow Barbara Harscher. He had no known offspring. From 1525 and onwards he had growing sympathies for Martin Luther and supported Luther's cause in some works.

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September 1 - 1519 - 1560 - September 2 - 1561 - 1525 - Martin Luther

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